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I had a mail conversation with a highly intelligent person this morning about modelling. “you can´t model the interior” he said. I beg to differ. The challenge and great opportunity of our age is to model the interior based on signals in the exterior, such as language, behaviour and consumption patterns. “Good science” will have … Read more

Whether you communicate professionally or personally there are four fundamental aspects to it. Any firm that claims to be full service needs to deliver on all four quadrants.     It´s very rare for the same person to be proficient at all aspects and, as a team, it´s very rare that people that are naturals … Read more

A tweet by Bobby Bear has gotten retweeted and Bubba Bear has been wondering if there is some pattern behind what tweets get retweeted. That leads them to psychologists and text analysts such as James W Pennebaker and social media scientists such as Dan Zarella. They even mention yours truly! Trailer: Watch the full movie … Read more

Cute Bear Philosophers

When you look upon the Internet through the eyes of philosopher Ken Wilber´s integral model (AQAL) you see that the inner “psychology” of the Internet is a perspective seldom discussed. These cute bears have a discussion about it and touches upon Google AI project, Kevin Kelly´s notion of the One Machine and Ray Kurzweil´s ideas … Read more

I held a little workshop here at Ängsbacka today about getting started with social media and(postpost-?) modern tools like Google Docs, Reader etc. We started out by the discussing the WHY´s about using these tools. Why change? Most people today are used to using a mail-client and Microsoft Office and a lot of people working … Read more

I det här klippet fokuserar jag på digital storytellings ädla konst och vetenskap. Klippet knyter ihop säcken från de föregående tre videorna, och går även in lite mer på hur man kan börja tänka sociala objekt och förenkla sin marknadsföring genom Zen. Alla videos spelades in i all hast vid en improviserad workshop i sociala … Read more

(R)evolutionen fortskrider

November 7th, 2010 | Posted by mattiasostmar in Personal - (0 Comments)

photo © 2007 PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE | more info(via: Wylio) Det slog mig häromdagen att jag ägnat mer än 20 år av mitt liv åt att läsa om människans uppfinningar, idéer och historia. Sedan några år tillbaka har jag fokuserat på att praktisera och utforska det senaste världsomvälvande verktyget – Internet – och särskilt hur det påverkar … Read more

When you look upon the evolution of Internet it shows a striking resemblence with any evolutionary process, e.g. the evolution of human society. However, the Internet has evolved through different stages in an extremely short period of time in comparison to other evolutionary processes. Tweet

I believe that it is possible to predict people’s interests by looking at their written language. This can be done by identifying a few psychological traits that shine through in personal relaxed texts such as Tweets or blogs. To accomplish this, we need large amounts of data on each individual and large amounts of individuals … Read more

Join the (r)evolution!

August 28th, 2010 | Posted by mattiasostmar in Social - (10 Comments)

(Some rights reserved by Flickr/song_sing) Chilla? Dansa? Starta en revolution? Vad sägs om att bygga plurarki? Jag är på. Open Source Samhälle FTW! Jag skickade ut en Tweet ikväll: Och fick bland annat svaret från min mycket gode vän Joakim Nyström: Det lät ju kul, så jag nappade: Och skred snabbt till verket (dvs googlade … Read more